La. Tech to face North Texas for homecoming

Harry · April 23, 2015

RUSTON Louisiana Tech University officials announced Wednesday that the schools annual homecoming weekend will surround the Bulldogs Nov. 7 football game against North Texas.

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oldguystudent · April 23, 2015

Ah jeez

Green Lantern · April 23, 2015

Didn't we ruin their Homecoming in 2013? I'm down for doing that again. Fun road trip.

MeanMag · April 23, 2015

Didn't we ruin their Homecoming in 2013? I'm down for doing that again. Fun road trip.

That was a fun road trip. Easy drive. Good team. Really happy to have them in the conference. Good people too.

Ben Gooding · April 23, 2015

Great, that's 2/7 (Tennessee & La Tech). I wonder what the final count will be in our coaching staffs fifth season. We can rule out SMwho with just timing alone as we probably can Iowa as well for the same reasoning.

Mean Green 93-98 · April 23, 2015

Back to being everyone's homecoming opponent again. I hope the coaches and players are taking note and preparing to respond accordingly.

BillySee58 · April 23, 2015

Great, that's 2/7 (Tennessee & La Tech). I wonder what the final count will be in our coaching staffs fifth season. We can rule out SMwho with just timing alone as we probably can Iowa as well for the same reasoning.

3/7. We are Marshall's HC opponent as well.

THOR · April 23, 2015

Who expletive cares...play the games on your scheduke. Who cares what other teams do...

Ben Gooding · April 23, 2015

Oh, joy.

MeanGreen13 · April 23, 2015

honestly, NT would be my pick for homecoming... what exactly have we done to indicate that we're going to be any better than last year? especially on the road (0-6).

UNTexas · April 23, 2015

We deserve it. I anticipate another disastrous season.

UNT90 · April 23, 2015

It's a really good indicator of how our conference mates view us.

This season is not going to be fun.

oldguystudent · April 23, 2015

What was it about 2013 that gave me such a fleeting sense of confidence and hope? Was it that Todd Dodge could recruit studs, but not coach them for shit, but Mac could, but conversely, Mac can't recruit for shit going forward? Is that what it is?

MeanGreenTexan · April 23, 2015

Back to being everyone's homecoming opponent again. I hope the coaches and players are taking note and preparing to respond accordingly.

Hopefully someone steps up to replace James Jones, both skillset & vitrol over being the oppositions' homecoming opponent. He got fired up for those games.

Ben Gooding · April 23, 2015

Who knows. I think his ego clouds his judgement far too often and that is where our problem lies. D Smith could come in and light the world on fire in the fall, but we may not see him until AM falls apart and the season is already trending south. I hope I'm wrong. We might see another 3 QB rotation again for the second straight year before it's all said and done. It's going to be hard to stay optimistic about this season for the next 4 months.

UNT90 · April 23, 2015

honestly, NT would be my pick for homecoming... what exactly have we done to indicate that we're going to be any better than last year? especially on the road (0-6).

I'm sure we will be better on the road. I mean, we even scheduled an extra road game against a P5 this year to prove it...

VideoEagle · April 23, 2015

If you want to play your homecoming game in late October or early November, La Tech had the choice of Middle Tenn or us. All their other home games were too early or too late. There is more to setting the date for homecoming than just picking a beatable opponent.

We spoiled their homecoming before, let's do it again. The series is close to even.

KRAM1 · April 23, 2015

If you want to play your homecoming game in late October or early November, La Tech had the choice of Middle Tenn or us. All their other home games were too early or too late. There is more to setting the date for homecoming than just picking a beatable opponent.
We spoiled their homecoming before, let's do it again. The series is close to even.

Yep...have been on the committee at two different university stops that was charged with selecting homecoming dates. At neither university did the committee ever discuss who the opponent was to be. It was all about timing for events, weather, other local events, HC events and times, when it was in relation to parent weekend, etc. Not once did we discuss opponents and who they might be. Now, grant you this is only a sample size of two and has been a few years ago, but it is my personal experience with this sort of thing. Others serving on such a committee may have an entirely different experience.

Just go win the darn game...better to beat them on their homecoming anyway.

UNT90 · April 23, 2015

Remind me, who do we play for Homecoming again?

Ben Gooding · April 23, 2015

Homecomings have always been and will always be 'usually' against what the administration and athletic department believes to be a beatable team. It's just the way it is and anything to say otherwise is being naive and unwilling to come to terms with us as an annual HC game for opposing programs. It speaks volumes of where we stand as a football program.